The Yaba Yaga Mask by Kris Spisak - Women’s fiction/historical fiction/folklore

 


Women’s fiction/historical fiction/folklore

Date Published: May 9, 2023

Publisher: Tantor Media

Narrator: Allyson Voller

Run Time: 10 hours

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When their Ukrainian grandmother is lost on a trans-Atlantic Flight, two sisters are swept into a quest across eastern Europe to find the woman who had always told more tales than truths.

From Poland to Slovakia to Hungary and beyond, Larissa and Ira navigate the steps of Ukrainian folk dance, the cliff-side paths of Slovak Paradise National Park, and the stark realities of war, folktales, and feminism, all for the sake of chasing who they're starting to believe is a true Baba Yaga. Understanding their family's roots has never been more clear.

The setting's mythic properties drift like ghosts in the humid air, hinting of the folktales the sisters whisper like codes of bravery. The nesting dolls they discover reveal how each woman becomes stronger when tucked one, within another, within another—forgetting lies and truths to seize upon history, love, and the familial traditions that have shaped them into who they are together.

A Review by Brandy Mulder
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Hi everyone I’m here with an audio book review this time around and I listened to this through a new site that I have never used before. In case anyone is wondering I listened to it through audiobooks.com and the sound quality was excellent. It does encourage you to use their app but I was able to listen to it through their website.

This story is about Larissa and Ira and how they go to from Poland to Slovakia to Hungary to search for their missing grandmother. The narrator is good and does a decent job of letting you know which character is speaking and keeps the listener from getting confused. The story jumps back and forth between the story of the search for their grandmother and their grandmother’s story of her life during the war and how she survived.

If you like a lot of details in your stories you will like this one. The author is very good with details and gives a good picture of different scenes in the book. I will be honest I was more drawn to the story of their grandmother’s life during the war than the search for her when she goes missing. Larissa and Ira have their own bit of adventure during their search but some of it just didn’t draw me in as much as the other side of the story.

There is nothing supernatural in this story but there is a solid story about family traditions and how they can bind a family and all its generations together. I recommend this story for older teen and up.

 

About the Author

Author and professional editor Kris Spisak has been spotlighted in Writer's Digest and The Huffington Post for her work to helping other writers. Her non-fiction books include Get a Grip on Your Grammar: 250 Writing and Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused, The Novel Editing Workbook, and The Family Story Workbook. Spisak's background and her own family experience in the Ukrainian diaspora add weight to her fiction debut, The Baba Yaga Mask.

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